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Originally Posted by lapka
Points in the vid:
- There is 23 % pay gap between men and women averaged over job market
She acknowledges this and in the sentence after she says that pay gap vanishes, if you consider different majors.
That's the point. When someone says "women make xx cents for every dollar a man makes", it's extremely misleading and dishonest. For the same job, women and men are generally paid equally (I'm sure you could find professions where women are paid more than men and vice versa).
If you want to argue that women don't have as many opportunities for high paying jobs, that's reasonable. CEOs and high paid executives are generally men, and that's going to skew the gap quite a bit. But there are mitigating factors such as women not choosing technical/skilled degrees and professions or women leaving the workforce when having children and thus diminishing some of their opportunities.
Also, about 10% of engineers are women, and about 25% of people involved in the computing field are women. Both of these fields can be very lucrative. Women aren't being refused jobs, there just aren't nearly as many women getting the necessary degrees/skills than men.
Bottom line is the discussion started because MLYLT claimed she was getting paid far less than some of her coworkers, and that she does a better job. This has yet to be proven accurate, and it is still very much up in the air whether she is actually good at her jobs or not.